Colin Falconer Quotes
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History tells us that revolution is not an isolated event because it is not about overthrowing governments, it is about spreading new ideas.
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They say women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake a whole relationship.
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Tom, you couldn’t punch the froth off a Guinness.
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He couldn’t organize a fuck in a barrel full of whores.
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An enemy never seems quite as formidable when he is whimpering in chains, so that you forget how he looked sneering at you when you were miserable
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Telling you and putting it on the front pages of the newspapers is just about the same thing!
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Father's Day is like Mother's Day except the gift is cheaper.
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Quite the same thing. It is like an overwhelming clamour on the senses.
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Anyone who gives a lot of money to the poor must have robbed them first . . . poverty is only the result of the workers not getting proper reward for their labor.
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Here in a place as far from God as one can go and still freeze.
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They remove to York, that cold and godless place, where not even the devil could get warm.
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Grand Master of the Knights Templar.
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We make such plans for our lives, she thinks, and this is the way they turn out, nothing like what we imagine.
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He will see that I am no coward. If he will call for rain then I will give him a tempest.
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The fundamental problem with golf is that every so often, no matter how lacking you may be in the essential virtues required of a steady player, the odds are that one day you will hit the ball straight, hard, and out of sight. This is the essential frustration of this excruciating sport. For when you've done it once, you make the fundamental error of asking yourself why you can't do this all the time. The answer to this question is simple: the first time was a fluke
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I’ve drunk French champagne in a speakeasy and water out of a horse trough in Poland, and the thing that matters is not what I’m drinking but who I’m drinking with.
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If today brings no hope we should plan for tomorrow.
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She’d been in America almost three years now, but she still wasn’t used to it, the same language sure, but they had different words for everything; she’d learned that a scone was a biscuit, that sidewalk meant a pavement, and that autumn was fall.
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They say he goes to it with every stable boy and every young buck at the court, and where will that get him when all know it is a sin in the eyes of the Lord, and one day the devil will stick a red-hot poker up his nether parts for all damnation.
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This love your minstrels sing of, must it always be a knight and a lady? Who made this law? Was it God? Then God is a trickster, for there is no one else will do for me.
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A woman, though she is a queen, is meant by God to be instructed by her husband. It is the bishop of Orange who says this, and she smiles and imagines cleaving him with a sword, right through his skull to his breastbone
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LIBERAL, n. A man with his mind open at both ends.